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There's nothing like a hostile Congress and a war gone sour to bring out the fence mender in a President. Tuesday's State of the Union address was President George W. Bush's most humble yet, filled with domestic goodies designed to appeal to a public fed up with bad news from Baghdad. Immigration, health care and education all got speech time, but most surprising was Bush's new focus on energy and the environment. Is the Oil President really becoming the Eco-President? Opinions are mixed...
...humiliation of the simple citizen has become so widespread that people are fed up and want to open up," explains Saeda. Analysts fear the growing outrage at the actions of the security services against ordinary citizens could provide the spark that ignites a rebellion in a country where two thirds of the population of 74 million are young people enduring economic strife, grim employment prospects and a bleak future even as the wealthy minority appear to grow richer amid tales of corruption and exploitation of public resources...
...Samast, was quoted by newspapers as telling police he shot Dink because the journalist insulted the Turkish nation. Local papers are reporting that Samast was allegedly linked to a small ultranationalist group in his hometown, Trabzon, on the Black Sea Coast. "Those who created nationalist sentiment in Turkey have fed such a monster that there are many youngsters on the streets who do not find the ... state nationalist enough and are ready to take the law into their own hands," wrote Ismet Berkan in his daily column in Radikal, one of Turkey's main dailies...
...starving children of Africa and Asia were kin to her. The photos of Audrey with the Somalian children show a woman nearly as thin as they. It's anorexia as empathy - as if she didn't want to embarrass the starving children she met by looking too well-fed...
...especially Harvard society, where list-servers, text messaging, and online lectures already govern our hours. Soon, we will live in a Harvard that seems possible only because of the iPhone and its unified marvels. Let us ask ourselves if too many hours haven’t already been fed to the idol of Facebook in place of hearty dinners with friends. How many much-needed moments of solitude are drowned out by iTunes, or conversations are shattered by shrill ring tones? We should, of course, buy and enjoy our armadas of gadgetry, but not forget that they all come with...